Dick Davis
Biographic Data
| ID | 3625720 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dick Davis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dick |
| FAMILY NAME | Davis |
| SIGNATURE | DAVIS D |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Ohio State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Places Lost and Found: Travel Essays from the Hudson Review
Making Africa Work: A Handbook for Economic Success
Religion in the Shahnameh
This article discusses the reasons why Ferdowsi does not begin the Shahnameh with the episode of Zoroaster, which he quotes from the version of Daqiqi, but rather with an account of the creation of the world that, in contrast to Islamic historians writing before Ferdowsi, does not attempt to accommodate a Qur'anic view of creation and human history, but neither does he give a cosmology dominated or well informed by Zoroastrian theology. Similarly…
Women in the Shahnameh: Exotics and Natives, Rebellious Legends, and Dutiful Histories
The Shahnameh, the national epic of Persia, was written in the late tenth/early eleventh centuries by the poet Ferdowsi, who drew on a mixture of preexisting oral and written sources. The work is immensely long (ca. 45,000 lines; the standard edition runs to nine volumes), and only partially conforms to the notions implied by the word "epic. " It covers the pre-Islamic history of Persia/Iran from the creation of the world up to the Arab conquest …
Shahnama: The Visual Language of the Persian "Book of Kings" . Robert Hillenbrand
Responsible Stupidity
Responsible Stupidity Diane Davis (bio) Review of: Ronell, Avital. Stupidity. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 2001. It takes a lot of courage to write a book about stupidity. And to call that book simply Stupidity, not even bothering to frame the term in a way that signals your own quite intelligent mastery of it—this really takes guts. But Avital Ronell’s remarkable oeuvre is nothing if not gutsy, and Stupidity makes a strong addition to her formidable…
Teresia Sherley
Interpolations to the Text of Šāhnāmeh
A Literary History of Persia Edward G. Browne, 4 volumes, reprinted Iran‐books / Ibex Publishers, Bethesda, 1997. - The Divan‐i Hafiz H. Wilberforce‐Clarke, reprinted Iranbooks/Ibex Publishers, Bethes…
A Literary History of Persia Edward G. Browne, 4 volumes, reprinted Iran‐books / Ibex Publishers, Bethesda, 1997. - The Divan‐i Hafiz H. Wilberforce‐Clarke, reprinted Iranbooks/Ibex Publishers, Bethesda, 1998. - Modern Persian Prose Literature Hassan Kamshad, reprinted Iranbooks/Ibex Publishers, Bethesda, 1996. - Volume 32 Issue 4
L'Argento Di Un Povero Cuore: Centuno ghazal di Sacdi Shirazi , Persian text of one hundred and one ghazals by Sacdi, Italian translation, notes, introduction and concluding essay by Setrag Manoukian,…
L'Argento Di Un Povero Cuore: centuno ghazal di Sacdi Shirazi, Persian text of one hundred and one ghazals by Sacdi, Italian translation, notes, introduction and concluding essay by Setrag Manoukian, with a preface by Riccardo Zipoli, Rome: Istituto culturale della Repubblica islamica d'Iran in Italia, 1991. - Volume 32 Issue 1
Rustam‐i Dastan
Rustam's Origins are Certainly Complex, Multilayered, and it Would seem only partly Iranian. His legend itself indicates this; his mother is a foreigner living in Kabul and descended from Zahhak, so that both Sudabah and Isfandiyar are able to refer to him as demon-born, (dīv-zād). Mehrdad Bahar has concluded that much of his legend is Saka, or Scythian, and that it also has strong parallels and probable connections with that of Indra, the Vedic …
The Image of Arabs in Modern Persian Literature
The Image of Arabs in Modern Persian Literature considers the problem of defining Iranianness, given Iran's ethnic diversity and history as an Islamic but non-Arab country. The author focuses on the role of modern Persian literature in the process of self-definition, 19th-and 20th- century Iranian nationalism, and changing models of nationalism and their reflection in the literature, through the close reading and explication of novels, short stor…
Was Drake Black? Mark Twain, Henry Newbolt, and the linguistic politics of American literature
A Millennium of Classical Persian Poetry: A Guide to the Reading and Understanding of Persian Poetry from the Tenth to the Twentieth Century
Primal Africa: An Introduction The Aid Debate Belgian Experience: Zaire and Rwanda English Experience: Sudan French Experience: Niger North Africa Experience: Egypt Portuguese Experience: Angola Spanish Experience: Equatorial Guinea A Continent for Tomorrow Bibliography
The Problem of Ferdowsî's Sources
The article questions the usual view that Ferdowsi's main source for the Shâhnâmeh was a written prose history of pre-islamic Iran commissioned by Abu Mansur Abd al-Razzâq. It is pointed out that Ferdowsi's claim to have had access to such a history is conventional in character and is paralleled in other chronicles. The article discusses the so-called older-preface to the Shâhnâmeh and al-Tha'âlebi's history in the light of this claim. It conclud…
Epic and Sedition: The Case of Ferdowsi's Shâhnâmeh
The Sea of Precious Virtues (Bahr al-Favāʾiḍ): A Medieval Islamic Mirror for Princes
In the Enemy's Camp: Homer's Helen and Ferdowsi's Hojir
This paper will attempt to compare a famous scene in Ferdowsi's Shāhnāmeh with an equally well-known one in Homer's Iliad. There are broadly three ways in which such a comparison can be made. Similarities and differences can be ascribed to reasons of genre, or to the nature of the underlying mythical material and sources utilized by the poets in question, or to a consciousness of, and use by, the later poet of the earlier poet's work, at whatever…
Medieval Persian Court Poetry
American Visionary Poetry
Memories of Cochin: An epithalamium
Religion in the Shahnameh
This article discusses the reasons why Ferdowsi does not begin the Shahnameh with the episode of Zoroaster, which he quotes from the version of Daqiqi, but rather with an account of the creation of the world that, in contrast to Islamic historians writing before Ferdowsi, does not attempt to accommodate a Qur'anic view of creation and human history, but neither does he give a cosmology dominated or well informed by Zoroastrian theology. Similarly…
Rustam‐i Dastan
Rustam's Origins are Certainly Complex, Multilayered, and it Would seem only partly Iranian. His legend itself indicates this; his mother is a foreigner living in Kabul and descended from Zahhak, so that both Sudabah and Isfandiyar are able to refer to him as demon-born, (dīv-zād). Mehrdad Bahar has concluded that much of his legend is Saka, or Scythian, and that it also has strong parallels and probable connections with that of Indra, the Vedic …
In the Enemy's Camp: Homer's Helen and Ferdowsi's Hojir
This paper will attempt to compare a famous scene in Ferdowsi's Shāhnāmeh with an equally well-known one in Homer's Iliad. There are broadly three ways in which such a comparison can be made. Similarities and differences can be ascribed to reasons of genre, or to the nature of the underlying mythical material and sources utilized by the poets in question, or to a consciousness of, and use by, the later poet of the earlier poet's work, at whatever…
Memories of Cochin: An epithalamium
American Visionary Poetry
Medieval Persian Court Poetry
In the Enemy's Camp: Homer's Helen and Ferdowsi's Hojir
This paper will attempt to compare a famous scene in Ferdowsi's Shāhnāmeh with an equally well-known one in Homer's Iliad. There are broadly three ways in which such a comparison can be made. Similarities and differences can be ascribed to reasons of genre, or to the nature of the underlying mythical material and sources utilized by the poets in question, or to a consciousness of, and use by, the later poet of the earlier poet's work, at whatever…
The Sea of Precious Virtues (Bahr al-Favāʾiḍ): A Medieval Islamic Mirror for Princes
Epic and Sedition: The Case of Ferdowsi's Shâhnâmeh
A Millennium of Classical Persian Poetry: A Guide to the Reading and Understanding of Persian Poetry from the Tenth to the Twentieth Century
Primal Africa: An Introduction The Aid Debate Belgian Experience: Zaire and Rwanda English Experience: Sudan French Experience: Niger North Africa Experience: Egypt Portuguese Experience: Angola Spanish Experience: Equatorial Guinea A Continent for Tomorrow Bibliography
The Problem of Ferdowsî's Sources
The article questions the usual view that Ferdowsi's main source for the Shâhnâmeh was a written prose history of pre-islamic Iran commissioned by Abu Mansur Abd al-Razzâq. It is pointed out that Ferdowsi's claim to have had access to such a history is conventional in character and is paralleled in other chronicles. The article discusses the so-called older-preface to the Shâhnâmeh and al-Tha'âlebi's history in the light of this claim. It conclud…
The Image of Arabs in Modern Persian Literature
The Image of Arabs in Modern Persian Literature considers the problem of defining Iranianness, given Iran's ethnic diversity and history as an Islamic but non-Arab country. The author focuses on the role of modern Persian literature in the process of self-definition, 19th-and 20th- century Iranian nationalism, and changing models of nationalism and their reflection in the literature, through the close reading and explication of novels, short stor…
Was Drake Black? Mark Twain, Henry Newbolt, and the linguistic politics of American literature
A Literary History of Persia Edward G. Browne, 4 volumes, reprinted Iran‐books / Ibex Publishers, Bethesda, 1997. - The Divan‐i Hafiz H. Wilberforce‐Clarke, reprinted Iranbooks/Ibex Publishers, Bethes…
A Literary History of Persia Edward G. Browne, 4 volumes, reprinted Iran‐books / Ibex Publishers, Bethesda, 1997. - The Divan‐i Hafiz H. Wilberforce‐Clarke, reprinted Iranbooks/Ibex Publishers, Bethesda, 1998. - Modern Persian Prose Literature Hassan Kamshad, reprinted Iranbooks/Ibex Publishers, Bethesda, 1996. - Volume 32 Issue 4
L'Argento Di Un Povero Cuore: Centuno ghazal di Sacdi Shirazi , Persian text of one hundred and one ghazals by Sacdi, Italian translation, notes, introduction and concluding essay by Setrag Manoukian,…
L'Argento Di Un Povero Cuore: centuno ghazal di Sacdi Shirazi, Persian text of one hundred and one ghazals by Sacdi, Italian translation, notes, introduction and concluding essay by Setrag Manoukian, with a preface by Riccardo Zipoli, Rome: Istituto culturale della Repubblica islamica d'Iran in Italia, 1991. - Volume 32 Issue 1
Rustam‐i Dastan
Rustam's Origins are Certainly Complex, Multilayered, and it Would seem only partly Iranian. His legend itself indicates this; his mother is a foreigner living in Kabul and descended from Zahhak, so that both Sudabah and Isfandiyar are able to refer to him as demon-born, (dīv-zād). Mehrdad Bahar has concluded that much of his legend is Saka, or Scythian, and that it also has strong parallels and probable connections with that of Indra, the Vedic …
Interpolations to the Text of Šāhnāmeh
Teresia Sherley
Responsible Stupidity
Responsible Stupidity Diane Davis (bio) Review of: Ronell, Avital. Stupidity. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 2001. It takes a lot of courage to write a book about stupidity. And to call that book simply Stupidity, not even bothering to frame the term in a way that signals your own quite intelligent mastery of it—this really takes guts. But Avital Ronell’s remarkable oeuvre is nothing if not gutsy, and Stupidity makes a strong addition to her formidable…
Shahnama: The Visual Language of the Persian "Book of Kings" . Robert Hillenbrand
Women in the Shahnameh: Exotics and Natives, Rebellious Legends, and Dutiful Histories
The Shahnameh, the national epic of Persia, was written in the late tenth/early eleventh centuries by the poet Ferdowsi, who drew on a mixture of preexisting oral and written sources. The work is immensely long (ca. 45,000 lines; the standard edition runs to nine volumes), and only partially conforms to the notions implied by the word "epic. " It covers the pre-Islamic history of Persia/Iran from the creation of the world up to the Arab conquest …
Religion in the Shahnameh
This article discusses the reasons why Ferdowsi does not begin the Shahnameh with the episode of Zoroaster, which he quotes from the version of Daqiqi, but rather with an account of the creation of the world that, in contrast to Islamic historians writing before Ferdowsi, does not attempt to accommodate a Qur'anic view of creation and human history, but neither does he give a cosmology dominated or well informed by Zoroastrian theology. Similarly…
Making Africa Work: A Handbook for Economic Success
Places Lost and Found: Travel Essays from the Hudson Review
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